英语新闻听力教程unit4

STATEMENTS AND COMMENTS
Section A Warming Up
1. expressed concern
2. apologized、remarks
3. denied charges、warned
4. condemned
5. called for
6. threatened、accused、of
7. deeply troubled
8. allegations、baseless
9. reiterated
10. stressed the importance

Section B Micro Listening
1. The Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has announced the construction of two military facilities in the Arctic and a move to assert his country’s sovereignty over the contested region which is estimated to contain billions of dollars oil and gas deposits.
2. A speaker purporting to be al-Qaede leader Osama bin Laden is accusing the U.S. and European Union of backing a war against Islam.
3. The former president of Iran Mohammad Khatami says American attempts to impose western-style democracy on the Middle East are flawed because democracy is not something that can be exported.
4. The Pentagon has issued a memo to rebut the criticism from several retired generals who called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.
5. British Prime Minister Tony Blair says hid country is taking tough new measures to fight extremism following last month’s deadly terrorist attacks in London.
Key:
1. B. Canada stated its right to a contested region.
2. D. The U.S. and the EU were accused of being anti-Islam.
3. A. The U.S. imposition of western democracy is being criticized.
4. D. The U.S. Defense Department stood up for Mr. Rumsfeld.
5. C. Tony Blair demonstrated his country’s determination to combat terrorism.

Section C Macro Listening
Item 1
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is prepared to help Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders establish stability in the wake of a political upheaval. Mr. Putin made these comments today following a telephone discussion with Kyrgyzstan’s opposition leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev who was appointed by parliament to lead an interim government. Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders are trying to restore order after two days of massive looting and street violence that left at least three people dead and injured many more.
Key: 1-(B、D) 2-(A、D) 3-(G) 4-(E)

Item 2
British officials in Iran have denied allegations of any British involvement in violence in the southwestern province of Khuzestan where at least four people were killed in two bomb attacks on Saturday. The British embassy in Tehran condemned the attacks and said Britain rejected allegations linking it to terrorist outrages. Several Iranian Officials have made statements implicating British troops stations across the border inside southern Iraq in the bombings and in previous attacks earlier this year which killed 10 people.
Key:
Task 1 F、F、F、T、F
Task 2
1). Embassy rejected linking it to
2). Iranian official、implicating、bombings、previous attack

Item 3
For the first time, President Bush has said it could be accurate to compare the recent escalatio

n of violence in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive marked a strong downturn in public support for both the Vietnam War and the President Lyndon Johnson Mr. Bush spoke in an ABC interview in which he addressed increased violence in Iraq. The comparison of the insurgency in Iraq to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam was made in a column by Tom Friedman in the New YorkTime.
Key:
1. The 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.
2. Downturn in public support for both the Vietnam War and the President.
3. Increased violence in Iraq.
4. The New York Time.
5. A column writer.

Section D Additional Listening
Item 1
Iran’s president is denying reports he gave an interview to an Arab newspaper in which he threaten to halt oil sales if Tehran was referred to the United Nations Security Council. Iran’s President Media Department made that denial in a statement in a reaction to an article published in the Khaleej Times. Eelier today the United Arab Emirates-based newspaper reported the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened in an interview to stop oil sales if Iran is sent to the council for its unclear activities. The report from a French news agency say the reporter is astonished by the denial, but the news agency also says, the publisher of the newspaper says the confusion may be due to reporter not adequately identifying herself as a journalist.
Key:
1). denying 2). halt oil sales 3). referred to 4). nuclear activities
5). Media 6). made that denial 7). reaction
8). French news agency 9). astonished

Item 2.
South Korea and Japan say they have not detected any radioactivity to confirm North Korea’s claim that it conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday. Late Friday unnamed U.S. officials said U.S. aircraft have detected trace in the air samples collected near the suspected North Korea test site, but they stressed no final determination had been made. Word of the latest findings comes as the UN Security Council members continue to hammer out details of a draft resolution was excepted Saturday. The UN draft resolution includes economic and weapons sanctions againstNorth Korea, including a travel ban and financial restriction.
Key:
Task 1 1). D. Monday
2). B. detected radioactivity
Task 2 T、F、F、F、T、F、T

Item 3
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will not allow foreign powers to dictateRussia’s energy policy or interfere in any of its internal affairs. In an interview broadcast from Saint Peterburg today, Mr. putin told BBC News that recent Western criticism of Russia is a mix of cold war and colonialist thinking. Mr. Putin singled out U.S. President Dick Cheney’s recent criticism of Russian energy policy in which Cheney accused Russia of using its vast oil and gas resources as tools of intimidation. Putin compared those comments to an errant gunshot by Cheney that wounded a companion on a hunting trip earlier this year. T

he Russian leader host President Bush and other world leaders later this week in a summit of the G-8 industrialized nations. Mr. Putin said Russian is ready to hear well-intentioned criticism from foreign leaders, but said he will categorically reject what he called interference in Russia’s internal affairs.
Key:
1. He will not allow foreign powers to dictate Russia’s energy policy or interfere in any of its internal affairs.
2. In an NBC interview broadcast from Saint Peterburg today.
3. He called it a mix of cold war and colonialist thinking.
4. Cheney accused Russia of using its vast oil and gas resources as tools of intimidation.
5. He compared those comments to an errant gunshot by Cheney that wounded a companion on a hunting trip earlier this year.
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